As expected, traveling on two legs was much slower than riding on four wheels.
By the time Cen Wu and Cen Yuxing arrived at the classroom door, Lu You had already become fast friends with the rest of the class.
Almost every student had a vial of Regeneration Factor on their desk.
Only the siblings’ desks were completely empty.
What a lavish display.
Even Cen Wu felt a little heartbroken watching it.
The price Lu You had paid just to make friends was way too high.
Apparently, Regeneration Factor wasn’t only useful for treating external injuries.
It had other uses as well.
After the combat training class ended, everyone returned to the classroom.
Quite a few students instinctively paused for a second when they saw Cen Wu before casually resuming their conversations as though nothing had happened.
Neither sibling paid much attention to it.
However, when Cen Wu reached her seat, she discovered that the reinforced tabletop had gone from being a flat surface to little more than several steel bars.
The boy sitting beside Lu You grinned maliciously at her.
Cen Wu was speechless.
He had really gone through the trouble of turning her desk into a barbecue grill.
She looked over at Cen Yuxing’s desk.
The surface appeared fine, apart from a few scratches.
Without saying a word, Cen Yuxing swapped his desk with his younger sister’s.
But the moment he sat down, he felt his pants become damp.
He frowned.
His backside seemed to be stuck to the chair.
Cen Wu quickly noticed that someone had smeared something over his chair.
She was so angry that she almost laughed.
The students in the class weren’t all the same age.
They had only been gathered together because they had recently awakened their Innate Abilities and been sent to the academy for training.
The youngest was about Cen Wu’s age.
The oldest was already seventeen.
How childish!
“Who did this?!” Cen Wu demanded coldly.
The students looked at her, then at the motionless Cen Yuxing.
Someone suddenly burst into laughter.
Cen Wu grabbed a chair and hurled it straight at the boy who had laughed the loudest.
“I asked, who did this?!”
The chair was effortlessly caught before it could hit anyone.
Seeing how angry she was only made the boy laugh harder.
“Oh my, what a difficult mystery. Maybe you two are just so unpopular that this is what you deserve.”
Cen Wu stared at him.
Then she suddenly laughed.
It was an unsettling laugh.
The boy felt as though she were mocking him.
With Lu You watching, he immediately felt embarrassed.
Relying on the fact that he was both the oldest and the tallest in the class, he strode over and looked down at Cen Wu.
“What are you laughing at?”
“I’m laughing because you actually dared to walk right up to me.”
The moment she finished speaking, she didn’t give him any time to react.
She threw a punch straight at his face.
Unfortunately…
She had plenty of strength, but not enough speed.
Everyone here was an Ability User.
The boy dodged the punch with ease.
“You want to hit me? Too bad! You can’t! You can’t! Bet you’re furious!”
Cen Wu clenched her fists until they ached.
What was his ability again?
Oh right.
A Nature-type ability.
Wind.
No wonder he moved so quickly.
At that moment, Lu You stepped in to smooth things over.
“Cen Wu, you’re being far too violent. Is this really how your family raised you?”
The word family pierced Cen Wu’s heart like a knife.
She stared at Lu You in silence for a long while.
Then warmth spread across her right hand.
Turning her head, she found that Cen Yuxing had somehow dragged himself—and his chair—over beside her.
He took her hand.
“Younger Sister.”
He gently squeezed her palm.
“Our family doesn’t allow us to talk to idiots.”
“So don’t bother with them.”
As he spoke, he winked at her.
The boy immediately became furious.
“Who are you two shorties calling idiots?!”
He glared viciously at Cen Yuxing.
The instant their eyes met, he froze.
Those amber-colored eyes reflected back at him.
His limbs gradually stiffened as though they were turning to stone.
His movements became slower and slower.
Even taking a single step became unimaginably difficult.
The speed he had always been most proud of had become a complete joke.
Seeing her chance, Cen Wu drove her fist into his chest.
She didn’t hit with lethal force.
But breaking a few ribs was unavoidable.
“AAAHHH!!”
Witnessing the violent scene, Lu You let out a shrill scream.
“Principal! Teacher! Cen Wu’s killing someone!”
Lu You was on the verge of losing her mind.
The boy had only targeted the Cen siblings because of her.
If someone actually died, she would never be able to remain at Base No. 18.
Remembering her father’s instructions, she immediately ran out to find a teacher, eager to distance herself from the incident.
The principal arrived soon afterward.
Private fighting was a serious violation of the academy’s rules.
Two children with absolutely no background had actually dared to threaten a classmate right in front of Lu You.
They had become completely lawless!
If Lu You’s delicate heart ended up traumatized, how was he supposed to explain himself to Deputy Director Lu?
Furious, the principal summoned Cen Wu and Cen Yuxing into his office.
“Right now. Immediately. Call your parents over!”
Cen Wu lowered her head without speaking.
She didn’t want to cause trouble for Mom and Dad.
“So now you know how to be afraid? Weren’t you pretty impressive when you were hitting people?”
The principal slammed the desk repeatedly, spittle flying everywhere.
Cen Yuxing stepped forward and shielded his younger sister behind him.
“I’m her guardian. Whatever you want to say, you can say it to me.”
The principal nearly laughed from anger.
“You? What kind of guardian are you? Are you messing with me?”
“I’m her older brother. Why wouldn’t that make me her guardian?”
Cen Yuxing felt this matter needed to be clarified.
An older brother was a guardian.
“If you won’t call your parents, fine! Teacher Jun, bring me their enrollment applications!”
Calling the parents was only for appearances.
What the principal truly wanted was to drag the two of them to Lu You and force them to apologize in person.
Unfortunately, these children clearly looked like the stubborn type.
That probably wouldn’t work.
Teacher Jun hesitated before pulling up their enrollment forms.
“Principal, they are…”
“I don’t care who they are. Their parents are coming here today!”
The principal looked at the contact number on the application and decisively dialed it.
The call was answered only during the final second before it disconnected.
A lazy voice, sounding as though its owner had just woken up, came from the other end.
“Hello?”
Hearing that carefree tone only made the principal angrier.
“Are you Cen Wu and Cen Yuxing’s guardian? They attacked a classmate without reason. Get over here immediately and deal with this. Apologize if you need to. If the other family refuses to settle, you’d better prepare at least five thousand points in compensation. Otherwise… hmph!”
“…”
Xie Yuanchuan replied,
“You’ve got the wrong number.”
Then he hung up.
It happened so abruptly that the principal was completely stunned.
He stared at Teacher Jun in disbelief.
“He hung up on me?”
Teacher Jun chuckled awkwardly.
“He said… you called the wrong number.”
The principal wasn’t stupid.
“He obviously did that on purpose!”
Then he turned toward Cen Wu and narrowed his eyes in warning.
“If you don’t want to be detained, you’d better obediently give me your parents’ real phone number.”
Cen Yuxing raised his hand.
“Can I give you my big sister’s number instead? Actually, whenever there’s an important family matter, my big sister is the one who makes the decisions.”
Cen Wu’s eyes widened in disbelief.
Were they really going this far, Older Brother?!
She couldn’t even imagine the expression on Big Sister’s icy face when she received the principal’s phone call.
Meanwhile, Cen Yuxing wore an expression that clearly said:
If the sky fell, the tallest person would hold it up.
And in their family…
Big Sister was the tallest one.